burying ground

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Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg’s director of archaeology, said rectangular patterns of soil discoloration show the location of the burials in what is almost certainly the church’s old burying ground.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2021

Archaeologists think Sutton Hoo was also a burying ground for the royal’s relatives, who were laid to rest in about 17 other mounds near the presumed king.

From National Geographic • Jan. 29, 2021

Investigators eventually removed the remains of 27 people — five men, eight women and 14 children — from 28 graves in what scholars discovered was an old burying ground called the Walton Family Cemetery.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2019

Great-granddaddy of the presidential-preference laws that survive today in 15 states and the District of Columbia, Wisconsin's primary also became the country's biggest burying ground for the hopes of hopefuls.

From Time Magazine Archive

Johnny explained that the place had once been an Indian burying ground and how as a boy, he had often come there to hunt arrowheads.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith